Signal Week (formerly Paris Blockchain Week)

Some rooms report on the market. This one moves it. Paris Blockchain Week 2026, in numbers: → 10,000+ attendees from 100+ countries → $55T+ in assets under management represented in the room → 70%+ C-suite or investment decision-makers → 53,000+ facilitated networking meetings → 400+ government officials and policymakers → 97.4% satisfaction with networking quality Now comes the next chapter. Signal Week 2027, the institutional summit for digital assets, takes place 6–7 July at the Palais des Congrès and Château de Versailles. Every conversation is a signal. Every handshake moves a market.

The next wave of institutional adoption will be built on identity. “This is almost indistinguishable from reality.” Reinhard Hochrieser (@rhochrieser , from @jumio ) took the stage to show why identity verification has to keep evolving. With one LinkedIn photo and an off-the-shelf tool, he appeared on screen as Tom Cruise. His point: many identity systems still treat KYC (know your customer, the identity checks banks and exchanges must run) as a single moment at sign-up. The stronger approach treats identity as continuous, verified throughout the relationship, not only at the door. Trust at scale starts with knowing who’s on the other side. This is the conversation that shows what it takes to build trust at institutional scale, and it is the conversation that Signal Week 2027 will take further, 6–7 July at the Palais des Congrès and Château de Versailles. Watch the full conversation on YouTube. Link in the comments.

France spent a decade courting the digital asset industry. Now it is building the security to match. “You are particularly exposed when it comes to security, in a context where organised crime and cybercrime are two worlds that are increasingly porous.” @JD_Berger , France’s Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Interior, spoke directly to the industry from the stage. For the past 10 years, France has worked to create the most favourable conditions to welcome digital asset companies. Choosing France, he said, is an excellent choice. With that growth comes a responsibility to keep the sector secure, and the state is working on it on several fronts: inside government, with the platforms and with the industry itself, alongside new laws brought before the National Assembly and the Senate. That work is already under way. The government has set out a plan built on international intelligence sharing, closer work with ADAN (the Association for the Development of Digital Assets, France’s industry body) and tighter coordination between security services. Welcome the industry. Then protect it. This is the conversation that shows how governments are adapting to digital assets at the level of people, not just markets, and it is the conversation that Signal Week 2027 will take further, 6–7 July at the Palais des Congrès and Château de Versailles. Watch the full conversation on YouTube. Link in the comments. #blackoctober

AI can now find flaws in software that has run the internet for decades. That cuts both ways. Digital asset protocols hold billions in user funds. Yet the industry still can’t agree on what good operational security looks like. There’s no shared set of standards. And waiting for regulators to write them is no longer an option. The industry has to step forward with real solutions of its own, before the attackers move faster. So is AI a threat or a defence? “It can be really helpful for security, or it can be really harmful for security.” Jessi Brooks (@RibbitCapital ), with Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos (@StarkWareLtd ) and @TuongvyLe12 (Veda). The debate continues at Signal Week 2027, 5–7 July, Paris. Watch the full conversation on YouTube. Link in the comments. #blackoctober

What happens to the US stock market when the rest of the world can finally buy in? “Does it go to 100 trillion?” In conversation with Peter Kerstens (European Commission), Haider Rafique (@okx ) pictured close to a billion investors gaining access to US and European equities through tokenization: no time-zone barriers, lower costs, fractional trading and 24/7 markets. With foreign investors holding around 18% of a roughly $70 trillion US market, he asked how much bigger it could grow. The early data points his way. The IMF found that more than half of tokenized equity trading happens outside US market hours, and most trades are for less than one share. On-chain trading in tokenized stocks and ETFs passed $37 billion last quarter. Investors don’t keep market hours. Markets are starting not to either. This is the conversation that asks how big global markets could become once access stops being the barrier, and it is the conversation that Signal Week 2027 will take further, 5–7 July at the Palais des Congrès and Château de Versailles. Watch the full conversation on YouTube. Link in the comments.